Top 36 Quotes by Preston Sturges

About Preston Sturges

These are some quotes by American author Preston Sturges Writer, who lived between August 29, 1898 and September 6, 1959.

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

Preston Sturges

Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.

Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.

Preston Sturges

The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent.

The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

Preston Sturges

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

Preston Sturges

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

Preston Sturges

For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.

Preston Sturges

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

Preston Sturges

I have always wondered why the movie industry was so firmly persuaded that the original author could be of no possible help in the case of a remake or any other change in a work.

I have always wondered why the movie industry was so firmly persuaded that the original author could be of no possible help in the case of a remake or any other change in a work.

Preston Sturges

Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.

Preston Sturges

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